Clapton Bridge
CLAPTON BRIDGE, CLAPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308115
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Clapton Bridge
- Statutory Address:
- CLAPTON BRIDGE, CLAPTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308115
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Clapton Bridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLAPTON BRIDGE, CLAPTON ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CLAPTON BRIDGE, CLAPTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Crewkerne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 41313 06293
Details
ST40NW WEST CREWKERNE CP CLAPTON ROAD CLAPTON
5/213 Clapton Bridge
GV II
Road bridge over River Axe. Probably C18, extended and widened in l830. Ham stone ashlar. Three arches, the widest to the north segmental-arched, the others semi-circular, with a cutwater on east side between the south and middle arches only, the south arch virtually dry: parapets have chamfered plinths and chamfered top edges, with square piers at ends, the north west end being angled slightly; parapets plain on riversides. The 1830 works executed by John Pavey at cost of £210 (Bentley J.B and Murless B.J, Somerset Roads, SIAS, 1985).
Listing NGR: ST4131306293
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262460
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bentley, J B, Murless, B J, Somerset Roads: The Legacy of the Turnpikes Western Somerset, (1985)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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